Amnesia: The Bunker Is Terrifying 

It's not available yet.

Finally a good horror game !

Gotta love ww1 horror games

I think your channel funnels in half of GOGs revenue stream - they owe you a free copy of Swat 4 at the very least.

@@JohnnyWednesday Free Swat 4 copy is the peak of one's game reviewing career 😃

Damn...that almost made me cry 😭😂.

My exact thoughts Its Elysium.

I am a poor wayfaring soldier I'm traveling through this world of woe But there's no sickness, toil, nor danger In that bright land to which I go

"If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!"

Exactly what I thought . Wanted to like your comment but it has 420 likes…

It sounds like the voice actor actually got recorded being attacked by a monster lmao

I worked with him, he nailed everything almost in 1 take but always wanted to give more

​@@dannyjquinn880Just wanted to congratulate you guys for making Amnesia amazing again, and the idea of making survival horror combined with immersive sims, i gotta give you guys a handshake haha.

I do agree, but I think you mean blood "curdling"

those recorded letters were so well acted that the acting was actually very memorable to me

Pretty sure it soft locks you on parts as well. Like when You have to get into the communications room

Pretty sure it soft locks you on parts as well. Like when You have to get into the communications room

Pretty sure it soft locks you on parts as well. Like when You have to get into the communications room

Pretty sure it soft locks you on parts as well. Like when You have to get into the communications room

@@bigman9341have you ever heard of the definition of insanity?

Literally fighting to go back into the hell you actually *know*

Thanks for the spoilers

@@Adjudicus I think he's talking about when you go up the pillbox

​​@@Adjudicus bro that spoiler is in the video you're watching. don't get mad about spoilers when you haven't played the game yourself that's on you.

@@Hal_142 "don't get mad about spoilers when you haven't played the game yourself". I mean, isn't that the only time you'd get mad about spoilers? If he'd played the game already they wouldn't be spoilers.

Honestly, I believe that the implementation of a sanity system would only make sense if the player character developed severe PTSD as a result of experiencing the atrocities of World War I. As much as Amnesia: The Bunker is generally a very solid game, I personally feel like it's a huge missed opportunity to not delve further into the horrors of war despite taking place in one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history. Not too many horror games explore that kind of stuff, unfortunately. When you think about it, war is terrifying. I mean, unironically, the prospect of one day having to engage in a struggle with another nation and possibly not returning to your family is fairly horrifying in its own right. With all of those needless deaths and destruction all over the place, it reflects the ugliest side of humanity. In fact, war is often portrayed as an awakening to humanity's most primitive instincts: pride, greed, important resources, dogma, fear, disdain, anger, retribution, power, insanity, megalomania, or even all of the above. All individual thought is overridden by the violent and cruel might of military authority. All the people you'd have to kill and the blood you'd have to flow for the sake of your nation...

@@Noelle_Holiday It's cuz war is big fun happy times in video games. It's just a terrible medium for it. There's plenty of anti-war movies about it though.

Not all soldiers are affected by it, just look at the difference between "All Quiet on the Western Front" vs "Storm of Steel" Some dudes just have their brains wired tight.

Interesting and smart observations.

@@JewTube001 Arma CAN be pretty terrifying if you're undergeared compared to your enemy.

Yeah.

it is not really that the war is going, for me. It is the fact that the war doesnt care about you. Henri can die in the bunker for all he cares and the war will not acknowledge him, since no one knows what happen in the bunker itself

the best part , why? it's a nice detail

@@daegnaxqelil2733 often in these games you're isolated in some way. like you're in a remote location or under the ocean or in space. putting you inside of a war is just a really novel twist

​​@@JeanneHamada What really striked me the first time was when I got to the pillbox. I managed to forget there was even a war out there. I got up, saw the outside world again after hours, only to hear shots ricocheting off the concrete. Then I remembered, that I'm supposed to be a soldier, and yet all I want is to scream at them to let me out, that there's a monster in here. No one would care though, the war is still going on after all.

Makes me think it's not intentional and is actually just a bug. Probably forgot to add a minus sign in the scripting.

Came here to say this, happy to see you already did. Thank you for your contribution.

Yep. Although I'm sure they flipped it for gameplay purpose just to give the player a que as to when they were in danger

When we're at it, another thing that I found super funny (and kind of disappointing) is the fact that the revolver here is one of the few ones in existence that actually opens to the right side, but they still made it open to the left for some reason. It's kind of baffling to me that they would ommit this very important distinction. They could simple choose a different type of revolver if they didn't want to model it that way.

@@frajecz Not to mention the Trenchgun could hold way more than 2 rounds

martincitopants

I didn't play isolation but seen videos and when I played this is reminded me of it and I was fearing and looking up so it wouldn't snatch me from some un scene hole

I am pretty sure, many parts of the game are scripted to make the player feel scared. Like while going to arsenal Storage room, you can hear every time the creature is coming and the exact same sound is played.

also when its close and the generator is on, the lights with flicker. its neat

I mean, from my experience, it really doesn't. Sure, there's very vague noises of it supposedly rummaging around in the ceiling or something, but it's neither helpful or immersive. You die constantly from the monster appearing behind you out of nowhere.

Who can't surrender...

@@charlesoliver4449Rooooh 😶

Qu'est-ce que tu dis, les français construisent ce monde. xD

@@charlesoliver4449 truly the most horrific thing to ever be

smith

Its hard to romanticize a meatgrinder.

Honestly not a lot of Vietnam war games either. I want a stealth game that takes places during the Cold War (yes I know, not an actual war) where I can play as a spy, personally. And yes, I've beaten the shit out of MGS3 so many times I can't count them.

It's probably because WW1's military tactics are hard to adapt into a fun FPS. It would make for a better RTS or isometric shooter, or horror game.

@@milkwater1204 doesn’t need to be a war game. Or a battlefield tactics game. Just a game set in ww1. A ww1 horror game like this but with zombies would be awesome. Related but I’m sick of every zombie in zombie games just hissing and gurgling. I want to hear nothing but footsteps, bone cracking and blood spurts. Silent zombies seem way scarier to me

@@zzodysseuszz Yeah, most predators are silent.

DayZ taught me this lol.

The only exception to this I could fathom would be a sub-sonic weapon, like a shotgun shooting slugs... but they would hardly be sniping with that.

and while that would be more immersive, it would also mean that the first time you look through that window you just get forcibly sent back to your last save game (no autosave to help).

@@slyseal2091 Yep. It's a game design decision, just like hearing the thunder roar before the lightning strikes. It is attention to detail, but in a different way

@@slyseal2091 Yeah I can imagine people just thinking they randomly died to a bug or something.

Penumbra fan 🖊 based

In the alpha there was explosives too.

I recall I tried to kill most monsters in the Penumbra games, lol.

Pretty sure I killed everything it was possible to kill, I remember cheesing the shit out of certain enemies on a second playthrough

If I recall you could also kill the water monster in Amnesia by throwing stuff at it.

Forgotten Weapons Let's Play, when? (The Man's got a thing for French firearms)

It’s not even that they were instructed to, the Lebel was one of the only guns in the war that was incapable of feeding stripper clips.

I feel it would’ve been interesting if they had you start with a Lebel. The long, slow shooting rifle would’ve been the last thing you’d want inside a bunker. They could then give you a double action revolver then followed by the shotgun both in order to reflect the ease of use of each weapon type in that situation as well as how rare they were IRL. You’d find more revolver ammo off the occasional officer and the shotguns were something you’d find Americans carrying around.

@@TheTeletrap No doubt. Since the Shotgun used in the game is a Winchester 1897, Trench Gun version, and you don't see those kinds of guns until near the end of the war when the Yanks are coming. I doubt any French Officer would be that lucky to bring an American Shotgun to the Western Front during 1916.

why do they have hand wraps

I concur. While SOMA is still my favorite Frictional title purely thanks to the story, this is my favorite Amnesia title. I hadn't felt genuine fear playing it like I have since I first played TDD back in 2011. They did right with this one.

"An action focus, on the other hand (RE 4 and Dead Space) - Tends to leave you with too much ammo (because directly confronting the monsters is mandatory) that at some point it's starting to feel more like a power fantasy than a horror." I disagree about that. It's just that on repeated playthroughs you get better at managing ammo and items, and know which weapon works on which enemy and it becomes helluva lot easier to manage ammo and have abundance of it. Common trick for RE4 for example was to have enemies chase you, have them tightly group, then shoot one to stagger them and melee kick the entire group. Do this maybe twice and they all die, saving you bunch of ammo. Then there was the "upgrade" weapon trick, where you shoot all the ammo from weapon and don't reload it, then go and upgrade capacity and your weapon will be refilled. This also worked in all three Dead Space games for example, and many other games that had similar "upgrade" system.

@@njmfff Well, I don't know what's your play style, but I usually conserve my ammunition, and make sure that every shot count (and not shooting wastefully, like I saw some people do). Add to that careful exploration, and you end-up with so much ammo, that you feel completely safe. Also, can you deny that the final act of both RE4 and Dead Space doesn't really feel scary anymore? Did you really felt dread when fighting those mutant soldiers or wave after wave of Necromorphs on a sunny planet surface, while having so much ammo at this point?

​@@adiveler It depends. In RE4, I will group enemies then shoot them with one shotgun blast and finish them off with a knife, or I will go for headshots with handgun, or line them up then shoot them all at once with rifle (piercing) ,etc. However my playstyle comes from me being life-long fan of the series. For Dead Space I actually use lot of stasis + plasma cutter combo, I also like line gun in first game and javelin gun in second game. Third game is mixed bag, because you can custom craft weapon, and enemies are lot different (lot of them are faster) because it's more action oriented game, so having fast shooting gun like SMG with addition of force gun to knock out enemies and crowd control was my favorite mix. Seriously, alternative shot force gun is god tier in DS3 because it will knock out about 99% of enemies in game and give you enough room. Also, I don't think point of RE or DS is really about the dread or being scary, it's SURVIVAL horror, which means it's a horror game but focus is on survival, aka management. You can't get scared of games or movies if you're like 15 or over, we are simply not living in 1960s anymore, we've seen far worse shit in life then anything media can come up with. Hell I survived war as child. You get the idea. These days, horror fans mainly just praise horror movies with how well implemented the horror is, and this is the exact same reason why over last 30 or so years horror has been more reliant on gore rather then dread.

I think Dead Space and RE4 would work reasonably well as pure action games, which I think they have to. Things like Amnesia, Outlast, etc. I think only work on smaller scale games that last about 4 hours give or take, before they overstretch themself. The Horror mostly wears out after a few hours, because you get more familiar with the threat, the mechanics and so on, so the fear and dread wears off. Now Dead Space can at this point continue as an action game, because the "fun" of the game isn't as reliant on its atmosphere and horror and can be carried for a few more hours by its gameplay which is not the case with pure horror games, where the pure gameplay isn't as enjoyable. So with a full priced 60$ game, you have to have a way to fill a runtime of 10-15 hours, which people expect from a full price game, while a 20-30$ game can get away with a runtime of around 5 hours. Now I'm not saying a full price horror game has to devolve into an action game, but you have to do something, which full price games often not quite get right. A good example would be Eternal Darkness, breaking its story up into different characters facing different scenarios. A bad case is Resident Evil 7, which tries to devolve into an action game by the end, however its core gameplay mechanics aren't strong enough to carry it and it would have worked much better as a say 40$ game, without the whole boat sequence. Also Alien Isolation does this kinda bad, by dragging the survival horror part on too long, without providing something engaging enough to stay fresh the whole time.

It makes me think, that for a split second before your brain was destroyed, your character's thoughts were just on waning to see the sky one last time

its a weird skybox too considering outside is nighttime the entire game lol

Or the protag see's heaven

@@klayman2 It’s the exact same sky as when he climbs up the ladder and gets sniped. No idea what you’re talking about.

@@klayman2 Tthat's not true at all. It's literally daytime everywhere in the bunker.

RE but no nice safe room with pleasant music and LOCK THE DOORS

@@FlymanMS there's safe room music when you lock the doors. it's cozy

@@FlymanMS Look the doors and you will hear nice music .

im sim games got me into survival horror tbh

Just play Penumbra dude. It's Amnesia going old school resident evil but before Amnesia. Glad to see Frictional Games returning to it's roots instead of doing yet another walking sim.

Can't wait for Silent Hill 2 remake to break that streak. Konami will deliver.... In disappointment.

@@141Soap most likely lmao

Weird to see an modern horror game that isn't made on Unity with stolen assets about investigating a haunted house by a demon/ghost.

Dear lord 6 months left, feels like 2023 just started

And we still have Silent Hill 2, Alan Wake 2, Alone in the dark and I can't wait

That is entirely subjective, that kind of horror very much still works. I personally find Amnesia, Outlast and Alien Isolation (pre-flamethrower) far scarier than games such as Resident Evil and Dead Space. This one's a great middle ground though, like the latter parts of Alien Isolation. The fact that we can kind of fight back, but only to allow opportunity to escape is awesome.

​​@@dmaxwell910901 idk I really hate those because eventually it gets to a point where I die over and over again cause I didn't sneak well enough or missed the exact hole that I was supposed to run into to escape over and over again. Takes the horror out and just becomes hella annoying, especially when you constantly pass some type of weapon like a shovel or steel pipe or whatever yet Arent allowed to use it😭

@@thepuertoricandream1376 In fairness, I did find Outlast and Alien got less scary near the end for similar reasons. Constantly dying does turn the fear into frustration and just takes you out of the immersion. For me though, being able to kill the enemies turns it into more of a fun challenge. That's why, even though I don't find them scary, I love RE and the recent Dead Space remake. I think Amnesia TDD was the pinnacle for that. The fact that death was still a punishment (the massive sanity drop), it didn't force you to replay the encounters until you escaped. This one seems great in the fact that, whilst it will make you replay a part, the dynamic monster ai means that each attempt will still play out differently.

@@dmaxwell910901 being able to kill the enemys is a challenge when you are able to kill them. Being able to wound them only for long enough to barely escape by a hair is much more scary than turning tail and just running every time you see something thats poses as a threat. But like you said that is entirely subjective depending on what scares you, ive honestly never liked the amnesia series because running from something is not exactly scary for me. At some point it becomes funny and i find myself laughing everytime i encounter the monsters because its like "oh hes back, time to play tag/hide n seek" and it becomes a pretty funny gameplay loop to me. this game has peaked my interest though

@@rabbitmane9265 You hit the nail on the head with the part about it being entirely subjective. I find being chased far scarier than actually being able to fight something. If I can fight it and there's a chance of winning, I ain't scared. My scariest moments in any game are when chased by the Brute in the original Amnesia.

Eh so far the remakes are pretty decent this year.

There has been many good games that aren’t remakes.

Outlast Trials

​@@kevinwest942 can you name some ? AAA of course

​@@Subwaygoonfree Street Fighter 6, Tears of Kingdom, and Diablo 4 all just came out and they're all good.

I remember when Markiplier played that game!

There was also another trenches game that’s similar though it’s more Silent Hill 2 inspired. It’s by the same dev as Backrooms 1998.

I immediately thought of that when he mentioned the sniper. You'd hear the bullet impact long before you heard the gunshot.

I imagine it's that so you'd have time to react, while it certainly would be more immersive like that I imagine it'd also be infuriating. Especially if you didn't save...

Yes. Most rifle calibers of that era traveled around 2.5 times the speed of sound, give or take a couple hundred feet per second.

You'd think w/ all the DLSS, FSR, etc. etc. that one of the companies would've introduced a 'frame doubling + hw accelerated interpolation'. AFAIK most GPUs are set to render-ahead, so there's "already data in the pipe" to work with. Plus, I'd imagine "frame-extrapolation" would be less 'costly' than AI/MI/Algo full-frame rescaling (DLSS/FSR). (-Would be a good feature for clearing out all those high refresh rate VRR 1080p LCDs.)

Just with the modern touch of randomization of items so it's not as situation of 'know the optimal route'.

Sure, it's unrealistic to hear the shot before it hits, but it's a gameplay concession I appreciate.

Amnesia would have been better if it was a Horror-Stealth immersive sim like Thief.

You could fight back in penumbra, I did it. You literally just pick up bricks and chuck them at the enemies. Edit: not in black plague tho

@@slippytrippy8122 True, I think was just in Overture. That game kept crashing for me at the end of the first level so I couldn't finish it but it had melee tools and throwables. Black Plague and Requiem stripped those out completely. So in a lot of ways The Bunker is like a sequel to Penumbra 1 if they decided to keep building on the combat mechanics.

@@JewTube001 thats right, I remmember now. I remmember those games suffering for it, too. In overture I remmeber being able to kill dog monsters with bricks and barricade doors/trap monsters. Honestly I think you need a combat mechanic in horror games to keep people from believing youre in an "on rails" experience. Even if its a weak way to fight back. Or at least to stack shit in front of doors or lock them.

You know, I've always found the Amnesia games to be very self-contained story-wise. You don't have to play the previous installments to understand what's going on.

Yeah I'm prob one to say I do wish they coulda continued on having more narrative than just outright putting more gameplay on the front as an apology for doing a lot of story for Rebirth, but this seems to still be great so far.

@@Noelle_Holiday All of them are set in the same universe, and feature main characters who have undergone amnesia as to how the ended up where the games start, but other than that the stories are not that linked. Some characters/events are mentioned in notes throughout the games, but overall, you are very much correct; the games are super-contained which is really nice.

I remember doing that with a rock in Penumbra.

They actually planned to have weapons in Amnesia, but it never made it in. From what I remember the pickaxe is still in the game’s files. I think they also wanted to include a crossbow as well.

Believe it or not, you can technically "kill" the invisible water monster in Amnesia: The Dark Descent, specifically by smashing a large barrel or crate on top of it.

Good thing I said it's the first game in the Amnesia series then...

i remeber their devblog as to why they (frictionalgames) are staying away from melee weapons as they are practically prone to player abuse meaning they can make and break (and most of the time break) the tension and atmosphere of a good survival horror game giving players "sense of overpowerment" against enemies that should give the players sense of terror i think they actually learned from the penumbra series and the recent amnesia rebirth the perfect balance of gameplay ,storytelling as well as environmental storytelling , puzzle and sound design

Given this game used an updated version of their old engine, I reckon its one thing they haven't fixed sadly.

You'd think by 2023 devs would've listened to the constant bitching and move to engines that can handle 60+ fps without breaking

@@panamajack5972 "move to engines that can handle 60+ fps without breaking", easier said than done dude. Modern game engines are one of the most complex technologies that exist and it takes millions of dollars to update and maintain them every year, not to mention finding game engine developers who can do it in the first place.

All their games run with a 60fps cap. I think it's something that is built into the game engine that just can't be changed.

Same with EndWar. Tho its capped at 30. I assume its a port of the console version

I mean, you're technically not wrong but yeah... (SPOILER ALERT) By the time you reach the end of the game, your character has successfully escaped the titular mysterious bunker all while discovering the horrifying truth about that place, but the monster is still alive and there are German soldiers looking for your whereabouts. As much as you managed to make it through the whole ordeal and survive without getting brutally devoured or shot to death by enemy soldiers, the war is still ongoing and it's highly unlikely that anyone will actually believe what you've just witnessed back there. They would probably start thinking that you're just being crazy or hallucinated everything as a result of breathing through mustard gas.

​@@Noelle_Holiday Out of the fire and back into the raging inferno

@@Noelle_Holiday Heh, it is basically a premise of that one pen and paper horror rpg I played with my chumps that was taking place during the 20s and my character was a monster hunter that was a veteran of great war and also a half-mad drunktard that tried to convince himself that most of the stories about him meeting all kinds of monsters and his experience in dealing with them are just his drunken babble and are not real :)

@@BaranZenon Do you remember the name of that rpg game? It sounds really interesting.

@@christianandrew9251 By that description I'd assume Call of Cthulhu, pretty good system based on the lovecraft mythos, set in the 20's

Hell yeah! Amnesia is awesome 👏 😎

It already had a good sequel…

Unlike a lot of people, I didn't hate AMFP or Rebirth. I enjoyed them for what they were, but they didn't come close to the amazingness that was TDD. This game, though? This game hits the mark.

I have not considered any games released this year to be good yet ):

I love how everyone's complaining that horror games are dying in 2023 because of those child-friendly mascot horror games like Garten of Banban, when they haven't even discovered stuff like Signalis, Iron Lung, and Amnesia: The Bunker.

2023 has to be the best year ever for game releases all around honestly, all the games to come out this year turned out to be awesome save for a few outliers like Gollum and Redfall

Can you recommend some? All I know of is re4 remake

@@Noelle_Holiday Don't forget Fear and Hunger 2

I’m tryin to get into single player video games. Been getting through silent hill trilogy and resident evil (older games). Which horror game that were released this year, apart from The Bunker, do you guys recommend?

Have you been sleeping under a rock or something? That’s what a lot of AAA horror games were like in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Now, AAA horror have had kind of a renaissance for awhile but you also have idiots claiming that “indie horror is dead” because of shit like Garten of Banban when that’s not true, they just need to expand their horizons.

Yea i agree .

I don't think pig machine is a good game and I actually liked Dear Esther.

Machine for cops better than outlast

@@rusi6219 id agree for 2 but not one

He's just using subsonic rounds.

Depends on air density and humidity

For short distances like these, it's irrelevant.

You'd get frustrated beyond belief if that's how it worked in the game though. That's why they did it that way.

@@blckspice5167 The air can't get so humid the speed of sound doubles, if it did you would be underwater.

Funny how that random bulgarian hide the pain meme guy is so connected to internet historian now. I thought the same thing from seeing this thumbnail.

I think it done to give the player a warning before their brain gets plastered across a nearby wall.

@@bcd32dok36 It makes sense as a gameplay mechanic, but less so as a bit of "attention to detail" in terms of realism.

@@TheBlackDeath3 realism has never been amnesia thing. It a terrible attention to dealing but it would be complete bullshit if was how it works in real life.

Its just subsonic bullet

Someone get me my brown pants And yellow shirt

Penumbra is 15 years old by now. It makes sense to reference their more recent products.

Hey Lois! *morphs into a peapod*

I was playing and hard and i was gun ho, any chance id get id put the monster in its place with a few well placed shots with my pistol or shotgun

I'm guessing you don't follow Frictional Games on any social media? Because they have been posting about it for quite a while.

@@Tomiply I don't use social media so yeah no help for me lol

Yet Silent Hill 2&3, the masterclasses of horror, give you an entire arsenal.

Nice copypasta

11:11 I also loaded in 7 shells in the Shotgun at one point, I believe the gun it's modelled after was only able to hold 5 at one time so I'm not sure what happened with me, they probably didn't think you'd get lucky and get enough shells so didn't bother setting a limit to it

yeah it's code veronica. you don't need to use storage box, just drop items on the floor! (but not meat!)